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Boiled Hominy

Boiled hominy is a dish of soaked corn kernels cooked in water with salt, served hot with sugar, butter, syrup, or treacle.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Boiled Hominy

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash the hominy in cold water and soak it for 12 hours in 1 quart of fresh cold water.

  2. Pour the soaked hominy with the water into a saucepan and add the salt.

Cook and serve

  1. Cook gently by the side of the fire for 1 hour, stirring occasionally to prevent burning.

  2. Serve hot with sugar, a little butter, syrup, or treacle.

  3. If left to cool, cut into slices and fry in hot fat.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Hominy
Forms the body of the dish; its starch softens and thickens as it simmers in water.

The step that matters

Cook gently and stir occasionally. Hominy is rich in starch that settles and scorches on the base of the pan over strong heat. Gentle heat and regular stirring keep it from sticking and burning while the kernels soften through.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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